Cool Temperate - Nut Plants

Nut Trees

Availability January 2010

ALMONDS @ £25.00

Robijn - Dutch bred, soft-shelled, late blooming, missing frosts; crops well.

Ingrid - reliable variety with good leaf curl resistance. Ripens September.

CHESTNUTS - These are all Marron types giving 1 large useful nut per cluster rather than a mass of small ones. Own root trees @ £29.00

MARAVAL Precocious and partly self-fertile new variety, cropping mid-season. Sold Out
MARIGOULE Early variety with large nuts, more self-fertile than Maraval.

COBS & FILBERTS - £14.00

Corabel	Vigorous, good yield, large nuts, resists bacterial blight. Mid /late.
Cosford	Large nut, very thin shell, good flavour, good pollinator, moderate growth.
Emoa Sold Out	New Dutch variety, precocious; large round nuts.
Ennis	Very large well-flavoured nut, compact bush, needs staking, modest yield. Quality but not quantity.
Gunselbert	Medium/large nut, good flavour; high yield; low vigour, shallow roots; abundant long catkins.
Gustaaf Zeller	Vigorous early variety, small nuts, good yield
Geant de Halle (Halls Giant)	Very large nut & good flavour; needs good drainage & a warm site. Offer price £7.00
Kentish Cob	Large well-flavoured nuts. The UK commercial variety. Pollinators: Nottingham or Cosford.
Lang Tidling Zeller	High-performing German variety, good yields.
Nottingham Cob	Medium sized nut, thick shell; good flavour & yield; excellent pollinator.
Purple Leaved	Purple foliage, good ornamental; moderate yield of high quality nuts.
Redskinned Filbert	Ancient variety with red skin on the kernels. Good flavour, late catkins, slender shoots.
Tonda di Giffoni	Italian, mid/late, medium/high yield, large round nut, good flavour, very resistant to Bud Mite.
Webb's Prize Cob	Large long nuts, similar to Kentish Cob but larger clusters; good in north. Young plants £7.00
White Filbert	Medium sized, thin-shelled nut, pale skin on kernel. Excellent flavour, compact bush, suits north.

Turkish Hazel - Corylu colurna - more tree like than Common Hazel, and less multi-stemmed and suckering. Abundant small nuts used for flavouring and oil. 45-60 cms. £4.00

TRAZEL - hybrid between Common and Turkish hazels, tall and non-suckering, heavy crops of nuts that fall freely from the frilly husks. Pollinated by other hybrids or either parent. £33.00

Chinoka - Early, heavy crops of medium nuts, ample catkins so a good pollinator.

Freeoka - named after its free falling heavy crops of nuts.

GINKGO BILOBA - Maidenhair Tree - 'Living Fossil' with edible nuts on female plants and many herbal uses. Unsexed young plants @ £7.00

NUT PINE or STONE PINE @ £7.00

Pinus pinea 45 - 75cm.

Larger sizes available - 125-150 cms and 2oo.cms.

Grows well most areas, ornamental blue-grey young leaves, and seems to crop at about 8 years old in the UK.

WALNUT - Juglans regia £37.00

Broadview Sold Out	Compact tree, good yields of large, quality nuts late in season. Self-fertile & precocious.
Buccaneer	Healthy robust tree, abundant round nuts, particularly good for pickling. Self-fertile.
Franquette Sold Out	Vigorous, thin shelled quality nuts, late season, pollinated by Broadview
N0.16 Sold Out	Good sized kernel, heavy yields; late leafing helps it miss frosts.
Plovdivski	Bulgarian tree for large nuts and timber, Blight resistant.
Proslavski	Bulgarian strain for large quality nuts. Resistant to blight. Vigorous.
Rita Sold Out	Compact variety, heavy crops, thin shelled nuts, seems to be self-fertile; super hardy.

Juglans regia - Common Walnut seedlings 60 - 90 cms. £3.00